Minnows Sheriff Stun Real Madrid With Unlikely Victory At Bernabeu

By Daily Sports on September 29, 2021

 

Sheriff Tiraspol pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Champions League history on Tuesday by beating Real Madrid 2-1 at the Santiago Bernabeu, with Sebastien Thill smashing a stunning 89th-minute winner.

Madrid fell behind to Jasurbek Yakhshiboev’s header in the first half but Karim Benzema’s penalty appeared to have spared the blushes of the Spanish giants, only for Thill to snatch an incredible victory.

The result will go down as one of the most surprising in the history of the competition and delivers a significant boost to Sheriff’s chances of qualifying for the last 16.

They now have six points out of six in Group D, having already beaten Shakhtar Donetsk.

When Sheriff were founded in 1997, Madrid were about to win the seventh of their 13 European Cups.

Sheriff have since won 19 out of the last 21 Moldovan titles including the last six.

Yet upsetting the world's most prestigious teams is less a football fairytale than a success story for a conglomerate company that controls businesses ranging from a cognac distillery to supermarkets, and a football club.

While Sheriff play in the Moldovan league, they are from Transnistria, a pro-Russian separatist state created after a civil war following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The territory is effectively run by the Sheriff holding company, which sports a five-pointed sheriff's star as its logo.

The question marks around the history of the club, however, could not detract from the satisfaction felt by the players, who celebrated the win at the final whistle as if they had won the entire tournament.

Thill, Sheriff’s match-winner, was last year playing on loan at Russian club FC Tambov, who in May were dissolved after declaring themselves bankrupt.

UNEXPECTED SETBACK

Real Madrid have time to recover but this is an unexpected setback for what has otherwise been an encouraging start under Carlo Ancelotti.

They were the more authoritative early on, but Sheriff scored with the first opportunity they got.

David Alaba was tempted out to press and as the ball was spread left, the sprinting defender was unable to catch up with Yakhshiboev, who headed in a perfectly weighted cross from Cristiano. (AFP)

•PHOTO: Sheriff players celebrating a goal

Source Daily Sports

Posted September 29, 2021


 

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